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The gratefull seruant a comedie as it was lately presented with good applause at the Priuate House in Drury-Lane, by Her Majesties Servants

by: Shirley, James, 1596-1666; Alsop, Bernard, printer; Fawcett, Thomas, active 1621-1643, printer; Grove, John, active 1622-1669, bookseller; Batten, David, binder. MB; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner. MB

Publication date: 1630

Publisher: London : Printed by B[ernard]. A[lsop]. and T[homas]. F[awcet]. for Iohn Groue, and are to be sold at his shop at Furnivals-Inne Gate

Collection: bplsceep; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Boston Public Library

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Printers' names from STC

Signatures: [superscript pi]A² A⁴ chi² B-K⁴ L².

Title page vignette; headpieces; initials

Variant: imprint has "Greue."

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.)

Greg, W.W. Bibliography of the English printed drama to the Restoration

English short title catalogue

Boston Public Library. Catalogue of the Barton Collection

Cataloged

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy imperfect: A⁴ and chi² wanting. Halfbound in ca. 19th-century calfskin and marbled papers. Rebacked in brown goatskin. Title stamped in gilt along the spine. Bindery ticket of D. Batten and Armorial bookplate of the Barton Library on front pastedown. Lower margin of E2 recto: ca. 18th-/early 19th-century manuscript vulgarization of the final line of text on page.

Notes

No copyright page found. No table-of-contents pages found.

Pagination irregularities in original document between pages 65 and 72.

Text block is skewed on most pages throughout original document; text runs off the tops of many pages throughout original.